You can upgrade skills, but that reduces the ability of the sector to provide mass employment.
The unemployment rate remains high, and many see such certificates as a way to upgrade skills and get hired.
It could, as Dr Brown indicates, have been used to mitigate deindustrialisation, to improve housing, to upgrade skills.
Designed to help workers upgrade skills in a downsizing job market, company-subsidized classes can offer targeted training in areas like management, business writing and high-skill manufacturing.
To help older workers upgrade skills for such jobs, she added, community colleges, online degree programs and intensive workshops are expanding training and fast-track certification programs.
These sectors tend to be concentrated in manufacturing, but targeted policies can also help raise productivity and upgrade skills in agriculture and services.
Assuming that the American work force can upgrade skills and, where necessary, move to new jobs, according to many economists, most people are likely to benefit.
→ Effective in increasing long-run employability and earnings through skill upgrading In recessions to counter disadvantages of work sharing schemes, to strengthen LM attachment, and upgrade skills.
Another important set of labor market policies is concerned with providing access to opportunities to acquire and upgrade skills and earning power.
Singapore has said it will impose more limits on numbers of foreign workers and has called upon businesses to help upgrade skills of the local workforce.
Some recent or ongoing experiments (e.g., Conley and Udry 2010; Gine and Yang 2009) are particularly concerned with finding good mechanisms to upgrade skills and facilitate the adoption of new technology.
